Not only would the Princeton-educated Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal not shake the hand of the Israeli delegate at Annapolis, he would not even listen to his translated remarks, preferring instead not to wear his headset.

Isn't that telling. Wonder which fanatics those were. Did the Christians from the south sally forth to protest as well? Maybe some angry Scientologists or those nasty Mormons that Cyrus thinks need to be eradicated.

When asked by FOX News for a comment about the situation, a National Organization for Women spokeswoman said they were “not putting out a statement or taking a position.”

Now if the British teacher was standing up for abortion for teens, morning after pills in High Schools, or for Hillary, well then, NOW would be fawning all over her in a show of women's solidarity.God Save The Al!

So, I just dropped off my son at school, and on the way back was listening to the radio to catch the weather forecast. The news guy does his thing, and at the end he reports on Gibbons and how she's back and well and had a good time and all--at which point, probably responding to the tone of the news guy's voice, one of the morning deejays interjected, without missing a beat: "and she's launching a new toy line--Tickle Me Muhammad!"

Mr. Forward: Better brush up on your geography. Khartoum itself is bounded by the White and Blue Nile rivers. The country as a whole is not desert, though there are deserts. In fact, Sudan is potentially one of the most productive agricultural countries in Africa.

It also has access to the Red Sea, so nautical skills aren't worthless.

Lesson learned. If barbarians manufacture a crisis, everybody will be grateful to them when they demanufacture it.

That, along with copious appeals to the golden mean, the fallacy of the grays, a seeming ubiquitous phenomena post 9/11 vis-a-vis islamic extremists. In fact, 9/11 itself may well have been nothing but a stroke for the golden mean, based on how things have gone since then. That may have been bin Laden's actual long range objective.

Pastafarian, that's a terrible idea. There is no reason to show disrespect for Islam generally. You should want to divide ridiculous extremists from the billions of decent people who live in the Muslim tradition. Why on earth would you want to push them together?